Re: Can't connect after restart

"Magnus Hagander" <[email protected]> Sat, 6 Aug 2005 19:30:19 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > > > Any chance the old postmaster was still around
> > servicing requests
> > > > without having reloaded the config filE?
> > >=20
> > > Probably. The guy who installed it was going
> > pretty fast, and
> > > I'm not sure he went and stopped the postmaster in
> > between;
> > > he probably just hit uninstall and then
> > double-click on the
> > > installer file. But it's still weird.=20
> >=20
> > Now that I think of it, ther eis another option. Did you only use=20
> > pgadmin and/or the icons added to the start menu for psql? Because=20
> > those access the registry for the port number to the backend, and=20
> > there may be something happening there with the uninstlal/reinstall=20
> > thing.
>=20
> We started/stopped the service a couple of times in Windows=20
> Services manager, but other than that we used only pgAdmin=20
> and the start menu icons. I'm not sure what you're saying=20
> here, what's your theory?

I wouldn't call it a theory, more like a guess ;)

The idea is that windows sometimes to some funky stuff with startmenu
shortcuts - and since some connection information is stored there, it
might be that those weren't of the same version as the installed
postgresql.

//Magnus

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